Case study: kommentare.zeit.de - Integrate a static publishing system with a dynamic Drupal app

Submitted by sanduhrs on July 8, 2009 - 22:13

integration

Your session in a few words:

How we integrated a static publishing system with a dynamic Drupal app.

Track:

Code it, test it, deploy it

Session Type:

Lecture

Level of expertise:

Intermediate

Language:

English

Established newspapers and publishing companies have lots of content. Already collected and stored in their home-grown data storage this content often is served through static files to the web - no way to interact.

This story is about how we integrated a fully static page serving mechanism based on XML and XSLT-Transformation which performs very well, with a dynamic Drupal application by lazy instantiation for ZEIT Online.

By now, the Community has more than 200k users and instantiates more than 100k high quality articles from professional editors of Die ZEIT [1]. Drupal allows our users to communicate and discuss the articles they already read online or in the printed version of the newspaper - almost 400k comments have been posted so far.

[1] http://kommentare.zeit.de
[2] http://www.zeit.de

Looking forward to learn more about it

Submitted by jbi on July 9, 2009 - 00:04.

We should get in touch

Jean-Baptiste
+33 6 24 78 29 22

Conference is sold out

Stefan Auditor

Stefan is co-founder of and senior developer at erdfisch. In his four years of professional experience with Drupal, he realized several smaller and larger projects and is totally convinced of it's capabilities. He is interested in Open source at large, believing it is the future of information technology and in e-learning and data privacy in particular.